May 13, 2022 | News
Washington, D.C. – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has found that the Government of Turkmenistan violated international human rights law by detaining lawyer Pygamberdy Allaberdyev. Responding to a legal petition filed by Freedom Now and the...
May 10, 2022 | News
Washington, D.C. – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has found that the Government of Kazakhstan violated international human rights law by detaining human rights activist Alnur Ilyashev. Responding to a legal petition filed by Freedom Now, the...
May 4, 2022 | News
Washington, D.C. – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has found the Government of Sri Lanka violated international human rights law by imprisoning poet Ahnaf Jazeem. Responding to a legal petition filed by Freedom Now, the UN concluded that Jazeem...
May 3, 2022 | News
On May 2, 2022, Freedom Now filed a petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Uzbek blogger and activist Otabek Sattoriy. The petition argues that Uzbekistan’s detention of Sattoriy is related to the legitimate exercise of his right...
Apr 21, 2022 | News
On April 21, 2022, Freedom Now and the international law firm Proskauer Rose LLP filed a petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Tajik bailiff and anti-corruption activist Saidnuriddin Shamsiddinov. The petition argues that Tajikistan’s...
